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   Legislative Decree No. 99 implementing Council Directive No. 86/278/EEC on the protection of the environment, and in particular of the soil, when sewage sludge is used in agriculture.

   Legislation

   Italy, Europe, Southern Europe

   waste (abuse)

   farmland

   This Decree aims at encouraging and at the same time regulating the use of sewage sludge in agriculture, in order to prevent harmful effects on soil, vegetation, animals and human beings. The sewage sludge shall be used as fertilizer and soil improver only after proper treatment and under the conditions established by article 3, regarding the composition, the concentration of heavy metals and other standards. Article 4 establishes the cases in which the use of sludge in agriculture is prohibited.

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   Act No. 183 concerning the organizational and functional restructuring of land conservation.

   Legislation

   Italy, Europe, Southern Europe

   natural resources management

   fisheries

   land management

   land law

   Despite its title, this landmark statute provides the mechanisms for the implementation of a policy of integrated management of land and allied water resources, primarily in a non-urban context, and the institutional arrangements needed to administer and operate such mechanisms (sect. 1). It was enacted largely in response to the state of divided and compartmentalized responsibilities of the central, regional, and local governments in the management of the above-mentioned natural resources.

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   Act No. 37 on the environmental protection of riveraine and lacustrine areas belonging to the public domain, 1994.

   Legislation

   Italy, Europe, Southern Europe

   fisheries

   water rights

   public ownership

   land ownership

   With a view to effecting the environmental protection of the bed of rivers and lakes, which dry up and become exposed as a result of a natural or man-made change in the former course of the river or surface of the lake, the statute reverses the rules governing ownership of newly-exposed river or lake beds (called riveraine and lacustrine "appurtenances"), which henceforth shall accrue to the State in lieu of the owners of riparian or coastal land.